Lawrence traced three generations of the Brangwen family through the agricultural transformation of the English Midlands, and the novel was suppressed for obscenity in 1915. What the censors found obscene was not explicit description but Lawrence's attempt to capture sexual experience from inside, as spiritual struggle rather than mere mechanics. The prose is dense, incantatory, sometimes overwhelming. The novel ends where Women in Love begins, with Ursula ready to enter the modern world. Together they form Lawrence's greatest achievement.